Perhaps the score of 5 is too hight, not every tv-movie was good and the episodes eventually get formulaic, but what makes Columbo is and has always been Peter Falk, he is a great actor and the part he plays suits him perfectly, too such a degree that Columbo has become his defining part. Columbo is a slightly comedic detective series, slightly comedic because even though columbo appears shoddy, confused...
Most so called "redpilled" films are nothing of the sort, usually when you see lists of so called redpilled films, they are either slightly political or just good action/revenge films, but that doesnt really open up your mind to a new way of looking at the world, this film does. Network shows the dark domineering side of network television, the push towards more viewers, more extreme content and more...
Very few comedy films are as memorable as Groundhog Day, it starts out as just a great comedy, Bill Murray plays a disgruntled and snarky weatherman, who has to go and cover a local seasonal festival called Groundhog Day in a small backwater town, together with his new producer (Andie Macdowell) who is idealistic and joyful, the opposite of Murray. Now, if this where just a fun romantic comedy, with...
Powerful film, from the Dadaist comedy troop Monty Python, a genuine attempt to take the piss out of a large number of dangerous and protected groups in Western society. The strategy the makers used is deceptively simple, they basically hid an anti-zionist, anti-socialist and anti-woke film, inside a Bible satire and then added a bunch of satire directed at upper-class twits and British boarding schools. The...
Where to start with this film, I accidentily discovered this gem while browsing the internet archive, at first skipping a bit I thought I was going to see a crime film, boy was I mistaken! What I got was the most delightful romance story I have seen in ages. One that left behind many strong and catharic emotions. The story starts as actor Robert Burke is released from prison and returns back to his...
Delightful German film, Actor Rüdiger Vogler plays a writers who has been send to the United States to write an article, but instaid of finishing his assignment he spends his days driving an car through the states, taking pictures, slowly getting fed up by the cheap music, tv commercials and monotonous American wasteland, until he meets actress Lisa Kreuzer and her daughter played by Yella Rottländer. The...
Though I like everything surreal, I am usually sceptical of fantasy, usually it ends up childish and meaningless, but when its well done I am more then willing to give it a thumb up. This show and its spin-off about Greek myths is most likely one of the best adaption of old European fairytales, outside a number of obscure European films. Its a short series of legends, fables, fairy tales, depicted...
Before I start talking about the film itself, I want to first describe where I am coming from. The older I get, the more I appreciate history, class and education as tools to keep us grounded in reality. Without these three things, we are just consoomers. Drifting through life without a purpose. What makes a film like Amadeus so important is that it gives the average man the chance to digest something...
Before I started to review this great film, I was planning to give it only four stars, but after thinking about the film and trying to describe it, I ended up spending a lot of time ruminating on it, so I had too not only wait a while before writing a review about this "documentary", but also get in the right mood. The claim that is being made about this film, is that its a documentary, supossedly...
A product of MTV's short artistic period, this animation series is one of the best ever produced and takes full advantage of what a cartoon can and should be. The story is mostly a mental trip, we follow MAXX a homeless man who thinks he's a superhero, Julie a former-liberal social worker, Mr. Gone a manipulative serial-rapist and Sarah an insolated young girl, through the world of the city, as well...
I watched this film this weekend, with plenty of snuff to enhance the experience and I must say, I appreciate it far more then I did, around 5 years ago when I first watched this atmospheric gothic masterpiece, a remake of Murnau's Nosferatu from 1922. Where to start? First the film is incredibly atmospheric, more so in the earlier part of the film, with a soundtrack consisting of Wagner and Popul...
Though The Rockford Files isnt one of my ultimate favourite shows, I notice this is one a lot of people seem to like and certainly is a good introduction to the cop and detective shows that where so great in the 70's, most people including those in my family and my friends seemed to like the show a lot when I suggested it. The show has two really strong points, the first is highly important, it has...
In my opinion the best F.F. Coppola film out there, certainly better then for example the Godfather, which I am surprised to see has not been reviewed yet on this site. This film is a wonderful take on surveillance culture, paranoia, social isolation and the question of what is real. Essentially we follow Harry Caul, played by Gene Hackman, who is a reclusive, paranoid surveillance expert, with a...
I watched this film for the first time yesterday, it was friday, I had bought some fish dishes from my local fish restaurant, I was planning to stay up late like every friday, so for some reason I decided I wanted to watch this old classic and from the very beginning I was incredibly delighted by this wonderful sensitive drama. Wild Strawberries is no doubt a cultural treasure, one of the best films...
One of the best short political satires produced this century, its a hilarious animation, basically Adolf Hitler descends in his Vril spaceship on a scared Israeli population where he declares suddenly that he is no longer racist, no he is antiracist now and he wants to spread love, diversity and open borders.... for Israel. Now, this doesnt turn out quite as people expected
One of my own time personal favourites, I am sure most people would disagree, its basically a weird artsy horror-comedy, it starts great with Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price) playing his organ, he stops, he walks down the stairs, his clockwork band starts playing old showtunes, then his fashionable assistent Vulnavia appears, they dance, she goes down stairs and they both drive away in their car, to start...
Dutch cinema has always been small and most of it has always been trash, but just like every European nation there are those handful of wonderful little classics that instantly become popular and stay so with every generation. This one is a good example, directed by Bert Haanstra, more well know abroad by his many documentaries. Fanfare (as in a musical ensemble) is one of those films, a wonderful...
La Planète Sauvage is in all accounts one if not the best animation every produced, made during the golden age of French comics, it has all the elements that make them great, wonderful art, surreal imagery, violence, nudity and a rich layer of philosophical ideas intermingled with the story. The story itself is wonderful and well executed, somewhere in the future humanity destroys itself, afterwards...
The next couple of months, I am planning on checking out more European arthouse, one film on my to-see list was this old classic "Der Himmel über Berlin", well old, its from ''87, but certainly an immediate classic, that slightly reminds me of Nooteboom's Allerzielen, seeing its both philosophical and has gloomy Berlin as its backdrop. The story is about two angels Damiel and Cassiel, who as spiritual...
What a bold attempt at a film, when I found this film on Zeitgeist, I was expecting a biopic, I assumed I may have seen this film already, but that's a completely different Beethoven film that makes him look like a buffoon. No this isn't so much a film, but a concert with small biographical details. Basically, we see Beethoven enter the palace of his patron, where he will perform his 3th symphony...
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